The New Venue

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GramcrackersMember

Posts : 4756Join date : 2012-02-21Age : 74Location : USA

Subject: The New Venue Thu Feb 13, 2014 1:20 pm

Prism Art Studio. I had a moment of terror when I put those lovely new stairs in my Sims new house and they couldn't use them, either going up or going down. So I quit and thought about the problem over night and the next day decided to try replacing those stairs with a new staircase just like them. And the Sims went up and down just fine.

EuphorialQueenAdmin

Posts : 14766Join date : 2012-01-30Age : 64Location : #EQCreations

Subject: Re: The New Venue Thu Feb 13, 2014 2:33 pm

That is really weird. So all you did was put them in again and they worked?

The spiral staircase is full of problems as well, and they are very similar.

EuphorialQueenAdmin

Posts : 14766Join date : 2012-01-30Age : 64Location : #EQCreations

Subject: Re: The New Venue Thu Feb 13, 2014 5:51 pm

Mention of spiral stairs made me remember a trick I use for those especially for multiple levels. When placing spiral stairs be sure to start at the lowest level and work your way up. For example: Lowest basement...next level above that and continue until placed on all levels. The way stairs are turned is also a factor. Be sure to leave plenty of access at the base and the landing of the stairs.

Yes, all I did was delete the unusable stairs and put in a new staircase from the catalog and the family has been using them with no problem. But they seem to be having trouble getting in their beds. first the parents couldn/wouldn't get in their bed and it had to be replaced. Then one of the girl's beds had to be replaced because she couldn't access her bed. ( I just used the shift key to duplicate the beds because they'd been recolored.) Then the SimBot seemed to be having trouble in the hall area where there were 3 arches next to each other in a horseshoe formation, allowing access to two hallways and the kitchen. Problem as solved when there was green vapor coming from a wall in one of the halls and discovered an empty can embedded there. Weird. Who drank it and how it got there I'll never know but was able to dislodge it so the Simbot could get it.

EuphorialQueenAdmin

Posts : 14766Join date : 2012-01-30Age : 64Location : #EQCreations

Subject: Re: The New Venue Fri Feb 21, 2014 11:37 am

Strange about the mystery can. Do you ever drag old food/dishes to the trash? Wonder if you might have missed the trash? I have done that and later found the rotting plate/food outdoors or somewhere else strange.

Re: Bedshttp://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2014/02/sims-cant-use-bed.htmlPer this article some common causes not Mod related are:All Sims that sleep when you install a new patch/add-on are reset from their beds. In some cases this causes the beds to become corrupt.Since Patch 1.22 corrupt sleep outfits and stuck Hover Bed moodlet can cause this.Sims that are in a relationship with another Sims that is currently out of town (Boarding school, Free Vacation, Simport, Ghost that doesn’t haunt, homeless Sim) cause the game to glitch if they try to sleep in a double bed. The game tries to assign the partner to the bed as well and fails.Suggested solutions quoted from Crinrict: :GrnPlmBob: Replace the bed. :GrnPlmBob: If that doesn’t help, move the Sim out and back in. :GrnPlmBob: Reset all Sims in your town before removing SleepFreedom. :GrnPlmBob: Change your Sims sleep outfit. :GrnPlmBob: Remove the hover bed moodlet from your Sim or let the Sim take a nap on it. :GrnPlmBob: Let your Sim sleep in a single bed while the partner is away.

Wow, that's a lot of potential problems. Thanks, EQ, for the list of fixes.

No, I've only used the drag for newspapers and food from the Sim inventory. Dirty plates always get cleaned up by a Sim or now, a Bot. Many, many times I've found food that was suppose to be in the fridge in other rooms or outside cause I over shot the fridge.